Parkour Playground – Austin Bunton Designs

Credit to David Belle from France.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Vocabulary
Dimensions & Layout
Special Features
Novels Excerpt
Concepts/Obstacles (Images)

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Introduction:

This is the Inisfreean version of a school playground, and it is here that Inisfreean girls in middle and high school enjoy the outdoor portions of the P.E. classes, learning the many techniques of Le Parkour (commonly called ‘P-K’) and Free-running.

While some say it wasn’t David Belle who really started this sport / these sports, he was still the first one who introduce Auz to it, so he is being named and thanked here.

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Vocabulary:

Parkour is an athletic training discipline in which practitioners attempt to get from point A to point B in the most fluid way possible, without assisting equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible.
Free-running is an athletic and acrobatic discipline incorporating an aesthetic element, and can be considered either a sport or a performance art, or both. Free-running is similar to parkour, from which it is derived, but emphasizes artistry over efficiency and speed.

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Dimensions & Layout:

This playground is the largest in Inisfree, measuring one quarter of a mile along each of its foundation’s sides, which gives it a ground-level floor-space of 1,742,400 square feet; 40 acres of endless jungle-gym constructs, scaffolding, and other structures ideal for practicing and perfecting P-K. This facility is a gymnast’s dream, and even the Olympic gymnasts of the Outlands have no facilities that can even compare, for some of its obstacles are as tall as office buildings and more.

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Features:

Indoor

everything you’d find in the best Parkour or Free-running gyms
every building accessible; all have an indoor area with Parkour and Free-running obstacles

Outdoor

concrete dividers/partitions
single-story buildings
ponds and fountains
objects/places perfect for “Kongs”
right-angle walls-intersections perfect for kickoffs
ladders and fire-escapes
scaffolding and ‘skeletal’ building-framework
near/parallel pillars and walls perfect for scoot-ups (“chimney-ing”)
multi-story buildings (not quite high-rises, but more than a few floors)
climbing-walls on the outside of some of the multi-story structures
stairwells with open windows
balconies
rooftop access everywhere
construction cranes all open for climbing (all the way out onto the arm and all)
Every pole/rod in sight is strong enough to support human/oid bodyweight.

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Special Features:

This is the primary construct in which Inisfreeans master all the P-K moves as prerequisites for the more advanced Inisfreean facilities where they simultaneously perform those moves while playing paintball and other contact (and non-contact) sports, which, in turn, gets them ready to be the most graceful war-fighters in the Universe, even when they are operating in low-G or zero-G environments, such as moons, planetoids, asteroids, and fleets in orbit and Deep Space.

and:

45° gravel/sand slopes with yellow construction cranes and ropes to climb and rappel down these slopes for
telephone poles used as a spiral staircase; each “step” is the metal pole that comes out from the bolted-in brace to hold it to the telephone pole; the user climbs the “spiral staircase” (spiral pole-case, in this case) by swinging up (CrossFit triple pull-up bar pull-up swing/kipping motion style) each pole all the way until they reach the top

More TBA…

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Novels Excerpt:

Outside, and across one of the city’s crystal-clear canals, was the school‘s equally-impressive playground; like the school building itself, their playground was much taller than a human one. It had several stories worth of scaffolding and other structures to climb and jump from. Trampolines, safety nets, and other helpful features were all over the place. The students making use of the playground seemed to climb, flip, and play tag without ever getting tired. Even the teachers and police joined in. The musical laughter abounded.

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Concepts/Obstacles:

Indoor